I'll be seeing you in Cornvally July 20-22 right? Think I will bring my water canon.. I will be sitting on my yellow zappy pointing and laughing.. It's a bitch getting off the start line there.. Most get stuck behind some slow poke.. One year two orthro surgeon peddling this hugh bone got away fast.. They beat me to the fair grounds.. That was before the sand trap.. Also before the running path was paved..

Yes, the next race is in Corvallis, Oregon, July 20-22. I'll certainly be there with "Henry Ford Goes Surfing, version 4.2". That race is part of the daVinci Days Festival of Art and Science.

Then, after BM, there is a small race in Prescott Valley, Arizona, September 15.

Next, Port Townsend, Washington, October 6-7.

Finally, Ventura, Southern California, October 27.

There is so much crossover between BM and KSR that this Theme Camp is a natural -- specially this year with the Green Man theme.

At the moment, I count 16 people confirmed for the KSR Camp, with close to ten Kinetic Racing Kontraptions. That can probably be considered ahead of schedule, as we estimated 20 to 29 people total. Four of the 16 are from Corvallis.

"Henry Ford Goes Surfing, version 4.0", enters Eureka with an elegant turn down 2nd Street in front of the Carson Mansion at the Kinetic Grand Championship on Memorial Weekend. Yes, "Henry" is a four-seater now!

Yes, like a front end loader or earth mover. Common arrangement in KSR -- eliminates the need for drive shaft U-joints. Most such Kontraptions use two pivoting sleeves -- one vertical for steering and one horizontal for "suspension" movement (to keep all four wheels on the ground over uneven terrain). I use the "European earth mover" arrangement -- one ball joint at the top, and a link with two ball joints at the bottom.

Everybody with human-powered Kontraptions "needs" to come by KSRCamp. We pretend fancy, but much of our stuff is built of coffee cans too!

We have 20 people and ten Kontraptions as of today. But room for more, you bet.

It seems safe to declare that Kinetic Sculpture Racing Camp was a success.

We had eight full fledged KSR Kontraptions, some other goofy bikes on the side, and we gave rides all day long every day.

Rutabaga Queen Shaye emerged as the highly competent Organizer of our Pavilion Exhibit and other activities, and she will have full charge of the camp next year. (I'll be attempting to introduce the concept of Music to BM.)

Agreed. I spent a very nice couple of hours meeting the folks there and getting an education on building things like this. You may have made the difference between my having an art car next year and not having one.

I'm back from Prescott Valley, AZ, KSR. Tiny race, but great enthusiasm and art-work, so that race has a bright future.

Scott, have we met before? I'm awful with remembering people.
Their Machines, those I remember. We could indeed collaborate, if you can come up here on short notice -- I travel a lot, and irregularly. We could PM.

BAS, oh YOU BET there will be a Kinetic Sculpture Racing Camp in 2008! This year was a great success by all accounts, so we'll be back. Rutabaga Queen Shaye will be in charge, so I can concentrate on the neighboring Real Music Camp.
You may have noticed that the Theme Camp Placement Team put several bicycle / Human Powered Vehicle camps in a group this year, and I'm in contact with our placer. The thinking is to continue the HPV "enclave", and replace the RLD techno venue with Real Music Camp. Too early to say, of course, but we are definitely already planning 2008.